'The WHO Guide to sanitation in natural disasters (Assar, 1971) summarized the essential aspects of environmental health management in disasters. These included the provision of emergency water and sanitation services; the burial or cremation of the dead; vector and pest control; food hygiene; and the assessment of the danger of epidemics following emergencies and disasters, etc. Thirty years later these aspects remain essential, though the needs, challenges and opportunities are greater.
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'The stated goal of the Warana 'Wired Village' project is not only to increase the efficiency and productivity of the sugar cane cooperative, but also to provide a wide range of information and services to 70 villages around Warana. The project aims at giving villagers access to information, in their local language, about crops and agricultural market prices, employment schemes from the government of Maharashtra, and educational opportunities.'
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RiceTec had made 20 far-reaching claims related to Basmati in Patent No. 5663484. As a result of a Supreme Court case filed by the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, the Government of India challenged 3 claims related to rice grain (No.s 15-17) in April 2000. RiceTec had given up 4 claims. However, the claims related to seed had not been challenged. The re-examination request filed in the USPTO by the Government was done in the name of Agricultural and Processed Food Produc more...
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‘The Results using household data for ten observations on nine low-income countries show that the short-run impacts of higher staple food prices on poverty differ considerably by commodity and by country, but, that poverty increases are much more frequent, and larger, than poverty reductions. The recent large increases in food prices appear likely to raise overall poverty in low income countries substantially.’
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'Global food prices are up 83 per cent compared with three years ago. The resulting food price crisis constitutes an unprecedented threat to the livelihoods and well-being of millions of rural and urban households who are net food buyers.
This briefing note sets out a series of steps, both short- and medium-term, to deal with the current food crisis, and to put in place the reforms required to prevent future repetitions.'
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'In recognition of the potato’s global importance as a staple food, the United Nations has designated 2008 as the International Year of the Potato, or IYP. On behalf of the CGIAR, the International Potato Center (CIP) has taken the lead in activities designed to mark the year, working closely with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and with the government of Peru, which hosts CIP and was responsible for the nomination that led to the UN decision to make 2008 the IYP.'
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'New poverty estimates published by the World Bank reveal that 1.4 billion people in the developing world (one in four) were living on less than US$1.25 a day in 2005, down from 1.9 billion (one in two) in 1981. The new numbers show that poverty has been more widespread across the developing world over the past 25 years than previously estimated, but also that there has been strong—if regionally uneven—progress toward reducing overall poverty.' by Ravallion and Chen, The World Bank, 2008.
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